June 2003

Belltown Cottage Park

June 2003, More Painting and the volunteer work parties heading towards the Grand Opening 21 June

Sorry folks, I need to get the images loaded, Come down and take a look. It's amazing!!! M y k e

Here we go down the home stretch! The Seattle Parks Department crews have been going gangbusters on the neighborhood's new 'backyard.' Pouring cement for ADA pathways and recreating portions of the foundations for the 3 Cottages demolished in 1968. Peggy Gaynor, our landscape architect, has been keeping an eye on them and helping our volunteer weekend crews stay organized. The Clampers were out lending a hand last weekend as volunteers moved 3 dump trucks of sand and soil. Three new garden plots were created for the P-Patch! New plants are on site ready for planting. Ne

Please help: The Cottage Park Renovation can use volunteers, donations of furniture and Cottage furnishings, cash to complete the interior of the Community Cottage. If you are interested in booking the Comunity Cottage for a small gathering contact Myke or Glenn. See Hugo House Literatary site for information on applying for the Writers-in-Residency program.

Special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Belltown Cottages and P-Patch. It has been a great 12 years!

Atta Boy; High Five; Go Get 'Em! Thank you, kindly and Go Team! Enjoy!

We have work parties and open house on site, Saturdays, 10am till 2pm. Stop by!

P0010164-pp.JPG	Historic center walk rebuild by Seattle Parks crews. Volunteers get to start filling in around them.	P0010262-pp.JPG	The first topsoil delivery of many!
Cottage volunteers moved LOTS of soil to create 3 new P-Patch plots today.	P0010276-pp.JPG	Peggy gets us going building new rock walls to hold in the dirt for the plots.	P0010271-pp.JPG
P0010281-pp.JPG	Everybody wants to help!!	P0010279-pp.JPG	Sidewalk chalk rules!
Planning,... and adjusting. The Cottage crew finished 3 new P-Patch garden plots along the new pathway. Eager gardeners arrived that evening with plants!	P0010289-pp.JPG	It has been busy next door at the Belltown P-Patch too. Volunter mosic crew of Wilbur and Sandi have been completing the last 2 murals along Elliott Avenue.	P0010177-pp.JPG
P0010331-pp.JPG	Grouting out a fern frond.	P0010483-pp.JPG	The Huckleberry hides under the white roses.
It has been a great Spring for green things. The roses grow through an iron fence of underground vegetables.	P0010039-pp.JPG	The rosemary got a trimming at the work party, and a salmon leapt out as a BIG bug runs away!	P0010500-pp.JPG
P0010479-pp.JPG	Belltown P-Patch and Cottage Park, corner of Elliott and Vine Street.	P0010377-pp.JPG	The solar fountain plaza. Welcome to the Belltown P-Patch!
The lower path loops from the fountain around to the Community Cottage.	P0010382-pp.JPG	From the Cottage walk looking back to the fountain. We have new sitting area along the front under the maple tree.	P0010397-pp.JPG
P0010374-pp.JPG	Back to the P-Patch above the fountain, the Cottages grow out of the gardens.	P0010367-pp.JPG	Pathway to the Community Cottage. With additional funding we will add a new doorway through this wall with a ramp for ADA access. The farm pump lifts water from the roof water cistern underneath.
The new pathway behind the Cottage will be used as the future performance stage.	P0010406-pp.JPG	Front porches at 2512 & 2516 Elliott Avenue, 2003.	P0010398-pp.JPG
P0010154-pp.JPG	Volunteer break time.	P0010109-pp.JPG	Looking towards the kitchen, refinished floors and gas heat.
Kitchens kept the original cabinets. The red concrete counters were added in the 1940's.	P0010110-pp.JPG	Bedrooms are ready for the Hugo House writers.	P0010394-pp.JPG
P0010443-pp.JPG	Next weekend we got two trucks of soil and another load of sand. We started filling the plaza and around the Cottages.	P0010495-pp.JPG	Members of E Clampus Vitas, Doc Maynard Outpost No. 54-50, came by to help move all that dirt around.
Work parties of volunteers were enjoying the sun at the Cottages and P-Patch Saturday.	P0010446-pp.JPG

Please help: The Cottage Park Renovation can use volunteers, donations of furniture and Cottage furnishings, cash.

Special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Belltown Cottages and P-Patch. It has been a great 12 years! Atta Boy; High Five; Go Get 'Em! Thank you, kindly and Go Team!

What's next:

Cottage Park Landscaping continuing through 2003

Cottage Park Grand Opening and the 7th Anniversary of the Belltown P-Patch, Summer Solstice June 21, 2003 with Black Cat Orchestra at 3pm

the Richard Hugo House Literary Center's Artist in Residency program, w/ Historic Seattle, July 2003

Growing Vine Street and the Cistern Steps, Vine Street and Elliott Avenue, next to the Belltown P-Patch

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